Dr. Emerson is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Loma Linda University and completed both her clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA, specializing in Pediatric Psychology. Clinically, she provides psychological services to medically-complex patients across several outpatient clinics at UCLA including: pediatric hematology oncology, pediatric endocrinology, pediatric obesity, and adult pulmonology. She also co-directs the UCLA Pediatric Psychology Consultation-Liaison Service at the UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and the Pediatric Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison service at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center. Dr. Emerson’s research has spanned a wide range of topics including: self-efficacy, health disparities, family-based interventions for medically-ill children, Munchausen syndrome by proxy, medical ethics, and professional wellness.